<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=499070" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Lucasta Ode Lyrick</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>Ah LUCASTA, why so bright?<br>Spread with early streaked light!<br>If still vailed from our sight,<br>What is't but eternall night?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> II.<br>Ah LUCASTA, why so chaste?<br>With that vigour, ripenes grac't,<br>Not to be by Man imbrac't<br>Makes that Royall coyne imbace't,<br>And this golden Orchard waste!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> III.<br>Ah LUCASTA, why so great,<br>That thy crammed coffers sweat?<br>Yet not owner of a seat<br>May shelter you from Natures heat,<br>And your earthly joyes compleat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> IV.<br>Ah Lucasta, why so good?<br>Blest with an unstained flood<br>Flowing both through soule and blood;<br>If it be not understood,<br>'Tis a Diamond in mud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> V.<br>LUCASTA! stay! why dost thou flye?<br>Thou art not bright but to the eye,<br>Nor chaste but in the mariage-tye,<br>Nor great but in this treasurie,<br>Nor good but in that sanctitie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> VI.<br>Harder then the Orient stone,<br>Like an apparition,<br>Or as a pale shadow gone,<br>Dumbe and deafe she hence is flowne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> VII.<br>Then receive this equall dombe:<br>Virgins, strow no teare or bloome,<br>No one dig the Parian wombe;<br>Raise her marble heart i'th' roome,<br>And 'tis both her coarse and tombe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Lovelace">Richard Lovelace</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=499070" data-title="To Lucasta Ode Lyrick de Richard Lovelace" data-description="I. Ah LUCASTA, why so bright? Spread with early streaked light! If still vailed from our sight, What is't but eternall night? II. Ah LUCASTA, why so chaste? With that vigour, ripenes grac't, Not to be by Man imbrac't Makes that Royall coyne imb..."></div> </div> </div>

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